- Graduate Seminar: Lena Pfister (ACINN)
Title: "Improving our understanding of the atmospheric weak-wind boundary layer using spatially explicit observations near the ground surface"
Date/Time: 27th of January, 11:45;
- Graduate Seminar: Emily Collier (ACINN)
Title: "The influence of tropical cyclones on circulation, moisture transport, and snow accumulation at Kilimanjaro"
Date/Time: 20th of January, 11:45;
- Graduate Seminar: Jakob Steiner (ICIMOD, Nepal)
Title: "Debris-covered Glaciers in the High Mountain Water Cycle: Four Years of Field Investigations in the Central Himalaya"
Date/Time: 13th of January, 11:45;
- Master-Defensio: Martin Mühlegger
Title: "Analysis of Submicron Atmospheric Particulate Organic Matter by a Chemical Aerosol Online Proton Transfer Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (CHARON PTR-ToF-MS)". Date/Time: Thursday, 14th of January, 10 a.m.; if you want to attend the meeting via zoom let us know with an E-Mail: atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- Graduate Seminar with Maria Wind / 16th of December
Maria Wind (ACINN);
Title: "Atmospheric conditions and exchange processes in sag-type ice caves"
- Congratulations to Ivana Stiperski (ACINN)
Prof. Dr. Ivana Stiperski has won an ERC Consolidator Grant 2020 with her project "UniCorn" ("Developing a Novel Framework for understanding near-surface turbulence in complex terrain").
- Master Defensio: Cornelia Zauner
Title: "Meteorological analysis of a Puspa rain event in the Callejón de Huaylas, Peruvian Andes, with the help of atmospheric simulations and observations".
18th of December, 09:00am;
- Graduate Seminar with Georg Wohlfahrt / 9th of December
Georg Wohlfahrt (Department of Ecology, LFUI);
Title: "The albedo-climate penalty of hydropower"
- Graduate Seminar with Jakob Abermann / 2nd of December
Jakob Abermann (University of Graz, Austria);
Title: "Aspects of changes in ice, snow and freshwater in Greenland"
- Graduate Seminar with Ulrike Romatschke / 25th of November
Ulrike Romatschke (NCAR, Boulder);
Title: NCAR radar and lidar data from field campaigns
- Conni Klein (ACINN) in BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's "The Naked Scientists"
Conni Klein talks about hurricanes on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's "The Naked Scientists" radio programme in the 08/11/20 episode on "How the Earth moves".[programme starts from minute 28, Conni from minute 50]
- Current developments of COVID
The APC group of ACINN is summarizing current developments in a blog: https://www.atm-phys-chem.at/air-quality-climate-and-sars-cov2-blog/
- OGGM-Edu's glacier simulator app
The glacier simulator is an interactive web application and can be used to illustrate the processes occurring during a glacier surge.
- Graduate Seminar with Leonardo Alvarado/ 4th of November
Leonardo Alvarado (Uni Bremen & Medical Uni Innsbruck);
Title: Unexpected long-range transport of glyoxal and formaldehyde observed from the Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite during the 2018 Canadian wildfires
- Graduate Seminar with Marlis Hofer / 28th of October
Title: "The added value of downscaling"
- Doctoral Thesis Defense: Moritz Lang
Title: "Probabilistic Wind Forecasting in the Framework of Distributional Modeling".
- Congratulations to Michael Kuhn
- The winner of this year's LFUI Best Students Paper Award is Maren Haid
- Research Article in the BAMS about the IAO
- The winner of this year's Thesis Award of the Research Area Scientific Computing is Brigitta Goger
- PhD Defensio: Harald Schellander
Title: “On the spatial modeling of meteorological extreme values”. Date/time: 29th of September 2020, 10:00 a.m.; ask atmosphaere(at)uibk.ac.at for entrance to the zoom Meeting or into the seminar room
- A new webcam has been installed at Langenferner
- Getting a Global View on the Biosphere’s Impact on Air Quality
- New paper by Klein and Taylor
Cornelia Klein, Christopher M. Taylor, 2020. Dry soils can intensify mesoscale convective systems. PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2007998117
- Master-Defensio: Paul Ladstaetter
Title: "Vertical structure of the atmospheric boundary layer in the Inn Valley during CROSSINN ". Date/Time: Wednesday, 23rd of September, 4 p.m.; ask atmosphaere(at)uibk.ac.at for entrance to the meeting.
- New paper by Thomas Karl and coauthors
"Studying Urban Climate and Air Quality in the Alps: The Innsbruck Atmospheric Observatory" in: Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society 101 (4): E488–E507.
- Johannes Horak - Urban Climatologist in Linz
- Master Defensio: Romano Zitelli
Title: "Sensitivity of ozone production in Innsbruck".
22nd of July, 09:00 a.m., in Zoom
- Master Defensio: Verena Sandner
Title: "Verification of COSMO-1 forecasts of
foehn breakthrough and interruption in the region of Innsbruck".
2nd of July, 08:30am;
- Bachelor's Theses Presentation on the 29th of June, 08:00a.m., in Zoom
- Senior Scientist at ACINN - Job announcement
- Graduate Seminar: Nevio Babic (KIT) / 24th of June, 11:45
Title: "Cross-valley vortices during the CROSSINN campaign in the Inn Valley: Investigating their properties, evolution, and effects on mountain boundary layer evolution"
- Graduate Seminar: Lukas Umek (ACINN) / 17th of June, 11:45
Title: "Large-Eddy simulation of foehn-cold pool interactions in the Inn Valley during PIANO"
- Graduate Seminar: Nadav Peleg (ETH Zürich) / 10th of June, 11:45
Title: "Temperature effects on the spatial structure of heavy rainfall and its impacts on the hydrology"
- Graduate Seminar: Maussion, Schirmeister, Schmitt (ACINN) / 3rd of June, 11:45
Title: "OGGM-Edu: an interactive online platform to learn about glaciers"
- Graduate Seminar: Matthias Zeeman (KIT) / 27th of May, 11:45
Title: "The impact of complex terrain on surface exchange processes; lessons learned from multi-scale observation campaigns"
- Job-Angebot für Studierende: Betreuung der Temperaturmessungen im Höhenprofil Radfeld/Inntal
Zu betreuen sind insgesamt 7 Sensoren in Radfeld. Kontakt: Thudium@oekoscience.ch oder friedrich.obleitner@uibk.ac.at
- University Assistant / Postdoc Boundary Layer Dynamics at ACINN
- Graduate Seminar: Cornelia Klein / 20th of May, 11:45
Title: "Land surface effects on deep convection within West African storms"
- PhD Concept Defense: Matthias Göbel
Title:"The impact of orographically-induced thermal circulations on the
potential for deep moist convection". Date/Time: Tuesday, 5th of May, 02 p.m.; if you want to participate (in zoom), please ask atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- Master Defensio: Moritz Trichtl
Title: "The atmospheric water budget over the Tibetan Plateau in ERA-Interim and ERA5 reanalyses". Date/Time: Tuesday, 28th of April, 4 p.m.; ask atmosphaere(at)uibk.ac.at for entrance to the meeting.
- Master Defensio: Matteo Castellani
Title:"Estimating Glacier Ice Thickness using Machine Learning". Date/Time: Monday, 27th of April, 5 p.m.; ask atmosphaere(at)uibk.ac.at for entrance to the meeting.
- Master Defensio: Colin Ronald (EMMA Student)
Title:"Glacier meltwater drainage patterns, discharge and connection to sediment load at the debris-covered Suldenferner, Ortler massif, Italy, revealed through dye tracing". Date/Time: Wednesday, 22nd of April, 3 p.m.
- Master Defensio: Samuel Williams (EMMA Student)
Title:"Characterizing outputs and sensitivity of different density modules in a multi-layer surface energy balance and mass balance model for the Hintereisferner". Date/Time: Wednesday, 22nd of April, 1 p.m.
- Master Defensio: Lilian Schuster
Title:"Response time sensitivity of glaciers using the Open Global Glacier Model From idealised experiments to an estimate for Alpine glaciers". Date/Time: Friday, 24th of April, 2 p.m.; ask atmosphaere(at)uibk.ac.at for entrance to the meeting.
- Graduate Seminar: Christoph Frei / 22nd of April
Title:"How uncertainty affects analyses of the surface climate - And how one can avoid it".
- PhD Concept Defense: Thomas Muschinski
Title:"Flexible Multivariate Gaussian Regression for Joint Probabilistic Weather Forecasts". Date/Time: Friday, 3rd of April, 09 a.m.; ask atmosphaere(at)uibk.ac.at for entrance to the meeting.
- Graduate Seminar with Moritz Lang / 25th of March
Title:"Circular Regression Trees and Forests with an Application to Probabilistic Wind Direction Forecasting".
- POSTPONED - Graduate Seminar with Christian Lamprecht / 11th of March POSTPONED
Title:"The Turbulent Enhancement Ratio: A new approach for characterizing local anthropogenic emission sources at a complex field site in the Alps".
- PhD Concept Defense: Moritz Lang
Title:"Probabilistic Wind Forecasting". Date/Time: Thursday, 20th of February, 01 p.m., SR 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus.
- Master Defensio: Isabell Stucke
Title: "Spatio-temporal modeling of cloud-to-ground lightning current strength and polarity in Austria and the atmospheric impact."
17th of February, 11:30am; Location: SR 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Master Defensio: Stefanie Knobloch
Title: "The Three-Dimensional Structure of Turbulence Kinetic Energy in Complex Terrain: An Evaluation of the Spatial Interpolation Method Kriging".
18th of February, 10:00am; Location: SR 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Praesentation der Bachelorarbeiten aus dem WS 2019/2020 am 3.2.2020 ab 9 Uhr im SR 60819
- Master-Defensio: Deborah Morgenstern
Title: Multidecadal Foehn Time Series Reconstruction Using Machine Learning and ERA5 Reanalysis Data
Date/Location: Wednesday, 05 Feb 2020, 11am; Seminar Room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor
- Graduate Seminar on Wednesday, 29 Jan 2020, 11:45
Lorenzo Giovannini (University of Trento);
Title: Cities, energy consumption and urban heat island mitigation
- Graduate Seminar on Wednesday, 22 Jan 2020, 11:45
Federico Bianchi (University of Helsinki);
Title: New particle formation around the globe: From laboratory experiments to the Everest Base Camp and beyond
- Graduate Seminar on Wednesday, 15 Jan 2020, 11:45
Elisabeth Schlosser (ACINN);
Title: Stable isotopes in Antarctic precipitation – from paleoclimatology to Polar Ocean freshening
- Graduate Seminar on Wednesday, 08 Jan 2020, 11:45
Benedikt Bica (ZAMG);
Title: INCA and its operational applications at ZAMG
- Graduate Seminar on Wednesday, 11 Dec 2019, 11:45
Leena Järvi (University of Helsinki);
Title: Impact of urban form on surface-atmosphere exchange of atmospheric pollutants
- Graduate Seminar on Monday, 9 Dec 2019, 11:45
Harald Rieder (BOKU);
Title: Current and future challenges for attaining air quality targets: the roles of precursor emissions, ambient meteorology, and climate warming
- New position at ZAMG in the field of renewable energy
- 10 open positions at the University of Vienna
- Graduate Seminar on Wednesday, 4 Dec 2019, 11:45
Marc Calaf (University of Utah);
Title: Surface thermal heterogeneities, dispersive fluxes and the conundrum of unaccounted statistical spatial inhomogeneities
- New web application: a world glaciers explorer app
Thanks to a grant from the university (Förderkreis 1669 - Wissenschafft Gesellschaft), we could develop a new application useful for teaching and outreach. more information at https://edu.oggm.org/en/latest/explorer.html
- Master-Defensio: Tiago Ferreira da Silva
Title: Synoptic influences on low tropospheric temperature and humidity inversions
Date/Location: Friday, 29 Nov 2019, 08:30; Seminar Room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor
- Master-Defensio: Michael Stichaner
Title: NOx/ CO2 enhancement ratios measured by instruments of low temporal Resolution
Date/Location: Thursday, 28 Nov 2019, 10:15; Computer Lab (60818 - EDV Raum), Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor
- Master-Defensio: Philipp Raffler
Title: Atmospheric Boundary Layer Structure in the Inn Valley:
A Performance Evaluation of the Numerical Weather Prediction Model COSMO
Date/Location: Thursday, 28 Nov 2019, 08:30; Seminar Room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor
- Tenure-Track position "Glaciology" § 99 (5), Hearings: Wednesday 27 November 2019
- Was Trump confused by a rainbow color map?
- Graduate-Seminar 20 Nov 2019, 11:45
Speaker: Miguel Teixeira (University of Reading)
Title: The structure of turbulence over complex terrain: lessons from the oceanic boundary layer
Location: Seminar Room on the 8th Floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus (60819SR)
- Job announcement: PhD winter thunderstorms – linking atmospheric science and statistics
- Graduate Seminar Nov. 13, 2019, 11:45 am
Speaker: Natascha Kljun (Lund University)
"Improved Interpretation and Upscaling of Greenhouse Gas Flux Measurements"
Location: Seminar Room 60819 SR, Bruno-Sander-Haus 8th floor, 52 f
- Graduate Seminar Nov. 12, 2019, 12:45 am (60819 SR)
Speaker: Saewung Kim (UC Irvine) "Making Sense of Missing OH reactivity"
Location: Seminar Room 60819 SR, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, 52f
- Graduate Seminar: Annelize van Niekerk (Met Office, Exeter, UK) 06/11/2019
"Using high resolution simulations over complex mountain terrains to constrain orographic drag parametrization".
- Vortrag von Bodo Erhardt (DWD) am 5.11.2019 (WB Zimmer (6DG21), 9. Stock)
"Arbeiten mit dem Wetter - Karriere als Wetterberater im operationellen Vorhersagedienst des DWD"
- Graduate Seminar
Verena Schenzinger (MUI): "HTE or no HTE? Causal explorations of a tropical stratosphere teleconnection" 30/10/2019 - 11:45, Room 60819
- Master-Defensio: Antonio Giordani on the 16th of October 2019
"Estimating ensemble flood forecast uncertainty: a novel peak-box approach for detecting multiple peak-flow events, and quantification of the ensemble size impact"
- Master-Theses - Motivated Master Students wanted
Two motivated master students: 1 in meteorology and 1 in physical geography, for a joint project to investigate the efficient use of a cold air pool for technical snow production and snow management in the cross-country skiing area of Seefeld (Tyrol).
- PhD Concept Defense: Maria Siller; Date/Time: 2019, October 02, 5 p.m.; Room 60827
- Stellenausschreibungen des BMLV
Leiter Militärmeteorologische Beratung & Militärmeteorologe für Dienststelle in Zeltweg (BMLV)
- IMC International Mountain Conference
International Mountain Conference, Innsbruck, 08–12 September 2019
- Job openings: 2 PhD positions winter thunderstorms - linking cold and convection, atmospheric science and statistics
- PhD position in the area of atmospheric turbulence modeling
- Booking period for individual courses on LFU:online
- Job Offer: Klimawissenschaftler für Hydrometeorologie
- Job opening: student helpers for the GlacioCloud project
- Graduate Seminar
- Master-Defensio: Matthias Aichinger-Rosenberger
- Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse an Georg Kaser
- PhD Defense: Manuel Gebetsberger
- Booking period for individual courses on LFU online